How to Hack Your Kinect

When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were a bit skeptical.

Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator. But first, why do we need middleware? Early Kinect hacks relied entirely on rough-around-the-edges drivers that could extract the raw images and depth maps captured by the Kinect sensor. People were able to make some cool hacks using those data streams, but you had to be familiar with image-processing programming in order to do much of anything. OpenNI, from PrimeSense , is middleware that allows developers easier, more abstracted access to sensor data, without having to do the low-level stuff themselves. It's hardware-agnostic, so OpenNI software will...

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